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  • California Polytechnic engineering student Erick Li spent $4,000 customizing his black Scion tC by lowering it, beefing up the suspension and adding red "underglow" interior lights and high-intensity headlights for carving turns in the California hills.

    Hot Wheels 2007

  • After all, it not only enhances night-time visibility but provides a fun "underglow" effect similar to those colored light tubes as found on the underside of some rice rockets.

    Coolest Gadgets Edwin 2010

  • A white micro-light is there to light your way, while multi-colored strobing micro-lights make room for added visibility and an "underglow".

    Coolest Gadgets Edwin 2010

  • As the late-afternoon sun slants through the brown wood, it turns it to purple with an underglow of crimson.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • As the late-afternoon sun slants through the brown wood, it turns it to purple with an underglow of crimson.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • But there was no red underglow in the pallor, such as gives many lovely faces among them the complexion of whitewash over pink on a stucco surface.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • A glowing romance of the Byzantine Empire, presenting with extraordinary power the siege of Constantinople, and lighting its tragedy with the warm underglow of an Oriental romance.

    The Grell Mystery Frank Froest

  • A glowing romance of the Byzantine Empire, presenting with extraordinary power the siege of Constantinople, and lighting its tragedy with the warm underglow of an Oriental romance.

    Janet of the Dunes

  • Mrs. Paine was genuinely, eagerly glad to see Pearl, and there was a tense look in her eyes, an underglow of excitement, a trembling of her hands, as she set the table, that did not escape Pearl.

    Purple Springs 1921

  • With his own hand he took the noose from his neck and, now that the flames had died away to nothing but spasmodic spurts above a dull red underglow, there was no one in the watching ring who could see Brown's sword-point.

    Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

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    ✨   mood lighting added to the underside of a car for visual effect.

    October 7, 2017